{"product_id":"9781438453309","title":"Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors: The Child Villains of Horror Film","description":"\u003ci\u003eExamines the complexities and contradictions that arise when the monsters in the movies are children.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince the 1950s, children have provided some of horror’s most effective and enduring villains, from dainty psychopath Rhoda Penmark of \u003ci\u003eThe Bad Seed\u003c\/i\u003e (1956) and spectacularly possessed Regan MacNeil of \u003ci\u003eThe Exorcist\u003c\/i\u003e (1973) to psychic ghost-girl Samara of \u003ci\u003eThe Ring\u003c\/i\u003e (2002) and adopted terror Esther of \u003ci\u003eOrphan\u003c\/i\u003e (2009). Using a variety of critical approaches, including those of cinema studies, cultural studies, gender studies, and psychoanalysis, \u003ci\u003eBad Seeds and Holy Terrors\u003c\/i\u003e offers the first full-length study of these child monsters. In doing so, the book highlights horror as a topic of analysis that is especially pertinent socially and politically, exposing the genre as a site of deep ambivalence toward—and even hatred of—children.","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123638780144,"sku":"9781438453309","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781438453309_p0.jpg?v=1763755883","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781438453309","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}